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Would You Correct Someone if They Misgendered Your Spouse?

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“Sure, think it over with your wife and give me a call back to let me know and we’ll go from there!”

These were the words said to me on the phone from the pest control guy who was giving me a quote to spray our yard for mosquitos a few months back. My mind immediately wandered to: do I correct him and let him know that I in fact have a husband (not a wife) or do I brush it off?

99% of the time I will kindly and nonchalantly inform them that I have a husband, because I think visibility is important and it’s good for people to meet an out, married gay couple (especially in the south), and to not make a big deal about it (because it’s not a big deal!), but this time I let it slide. He was talking a mile a minute and I had already made up my mind that we wouldn’t be using this company for pest control anyway (for reasons unrelated to the misgendering), so I wanted to do whatever I could to thank him for his service and then get off the phone. So that’s what I did.

But I’m curious: what would you do? Would you correct them or let it slide? How have you handled situations like that in the past?

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